
STORAGE
DELL POWER SOLUTIONS Re
rinted from Dell Power Solutions, August 2006. Copyright © 2006 Dell Inc. All rights reserve
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store-and-forward switches that let a single SAS port address more
h
n
n
vi
SAS domain is
ormed b
a network o
SAS devices that are
nterconnected by SAS expanders. Any device in a SAS domain can
communicate wit
any ot
er
evice in t
e same SAS
omain. An
unlike SCSI, SAS enables bandwidth per
ormance to scale as more
evices are a
e
to t
e
omain. Figure 1 provi
es a comparison
of SCSI and SAS capabilities
ell
A
im
lementatio
The Dell SAS im
lementation com
rises both hardware and so
t-
ware components. The hardware components consist of the Dell
owerVault MD1000 enclosure and the PCI Ex
ress–based PERC
5/E RAID controller. The software component consists of Dell
penMana
e Server Administrator so
tware.
e
ower
au
t
1000 externa
s
enc
osur
The Dell PowerVault MD1000 is the external SAS disk enclosure.
e
un
ancy is
ui
t into t
e enc
osure wit
optiona
ua
enc
osure
ana
ement modules
EMMs
and dual power supply–coolin
an
odules. With dual EMMs, control and monitoring of the enclosure
l
m
n
n
in
v
n i
n
EMM
il
Thi
ll
w
h
n
i
n
l
MM to manage t
e enc
osure—monitoring an
contro
ing t
e
alarms, LEDs, power supplies, and
ans.
Each power supply–cooling
an module in the PowerVault
MD1000 contains an inte
rated power supply with two fans.
lthough the enclosure can sustain the loss o
one power supply,
three of the four fans must be functional to maintain proper cool-
in
. Durin
a hot replacement, coolin
is supported
or a maximum
of five minutes when only one power supply–cooling fan module
is present in the enclosure. The remainin
ans will speed up to
rovi
e t
e necessary coo
ing.
he PowerVault MD1000 provides stora
e provisionin
lex-
ibilit
. This is achieved b
two back
lane modes—uni
ied and
split—offered in the enclosure. Administrators can easily set the
ackplane mode by using the toggle switch located on the
ront o
the PowerVault MD1000 and power cyclin
the enclosure for the
chan
e to take e
ect.
nifi
m
l
mini
r
r
ll 1
h
r
i
k
drives
HDDs
rom a sin
le controller and provides the ability to
aisy-c
ain up to two a
itiona
enc
osures. T
is a
ows access
to a total o
45 HDDs with a maximum o
13.5 TB
45×300 GB,
iven the currently supported drive sizes
. Split mode lets two
controllers share the same enclosure in an ei
ht-to-seven HDD
split—that is, one controller has access to eight o
the HDDs,
w
i
n
r
n
r
r
r
v
n HDD
An
enclosure in split con
i
uration does not permit daisy-chainin
i
i
n
n
r
hese PowerVault MD1000
eatures are desi
ned to provide
cost-effective, scalable storage with SAS or SATA drives. Figure 2
rovides a
eatures comparison o
the PowerVault MD1000 stor-
age expansion enc
osure an
t
e previous-generation PowerVau
t
20S/221S SCSI disk stora
e enclosure
Figure 1. Comparison of SCSI and SAS technologie
SCSI SAS
Current performance capability 320 MB/sec 3 Gbps*
Projected performance capability 320 MB/sec 6 Gbps*
Cable length 12 meters 6 meters
Scalability 16 devices per bus 16,000-plus devices
per domain
Architecture Parallel bus Point to point
Device compatibility SCSI devices SAS and SATA devices
*SAS performance is for a 1X point-to-point connection.
Figure 2. Comparison of PowerVault 220S/221S and PowerVault MD1000 disk
nclosures
Feature PowerVault 220S/221S PowerVault MD1000
Rack height 3U 3U
Number of HDD bays Fourteen 3.5-inch drives Fifteen 3.5-inch drives
Manageability In-band SCSI In-band SCSI
Backplane options Joined or split bus Unified or split bus
Drive support Ultra160, Ultra320, Low Voltage SAS 3 Gbps; SATA II
Differential SCSI
SCSI and RAID cards PERC 2 PERC 5/E
PERC 3/Dual Channel (DC)
PERC 3/Dual Channel Light (DCL)
PERC 3/Quad Channel (QC)
PERC 4/Single Channel (SC)
PERC 4/DC
PERC 4/DC integrated (Di)
Adaptec 39160 host bus adapter
Cluster support Yes No
Expansion No Yes, daisy-chain up to three
enclosures per connection
Storage management Dell OpenManage Array Dell OpenManage Server
software Manager and Dell OpenManage Administrator
Server Administrator
Rack or stand-alone Both Rack only
tower
Drive hot-plug support Yes Yes
Hot-plug fans/blowers Yes Yes, via the power supply–
cooling fan module
Hot-plug power Yes Yes, via the power supply–
supplies cooling fan module
Enclosure management Redundant or nonredundant Redundant or nonredundant
configuration
Power supply Redundant or nonredundant Redundant
configuration
Fans/blowers Redundant Redundant
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